School Quotes

• Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Moments
  • Moving
  • Regret

• Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

  

  Mike Fitzpatrick
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Safety

• School was pretty hard for me at the beginning.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • School
  • Hard

• I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

  

  Susan Dey
  • School
  • Reason

• Id never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.

  

  Nicky Whelan
  • School
  • Pass
  • Hall

• You're scaring me," Jack's voice finally cut through, and I opened my eyes, barely able to see him. "okay, good, yes, breathe. Breathing helps one stay alive,I've found.What on earth is so bad about a stupid school saying no?" "My life"-I gasped-"is over.It's over. Everything." He frowned dubiously. "Who would want to go to a place called Georgetown, anyhow? Ridiculous. Now,I could understand your devastation if it had a distinguished name like, say, Jacktown, but as it is,you're overreacting. Why do you want to go to more school? I went once for a few hours and nearly lost my mind.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Earth
  • Eye
  • Stupid

• I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

  

  Stephen Sprouse
  • School
  • Fashion
  • Sick

• I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • School
  • War
  • Drama

• I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • School
  • College
  • Theater

• In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • Children
  • Mean

• Nick? Nick Hurley?" I asked, laughing. He took back his hat. "You'll be sorry to hear I don't make gross faces as much as I used to. Now I'd rather smile at girls." "I noticed" He waved his hat around as if he was trying to dry it, his green eyes sparkling at me, as full of fun and trouble as when he was in elementary school. I realxed.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Girl

• The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • School
  • Learn
  • Important Thing

• The school was very supportive. The only class that I had to attend every day was biology when we were doing dissections. I would take an 8 a.m. bio class, dissect my animal, and then run to work.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • School
  • Supportive

• It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • World
  • Years
  • Brave

• I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.

  

  Paul Engle
  • School
  • Poetry
  • Write

• The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

  

  Daniel Finkelstein
  • Team
  • Football
  • Player

• It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science.

  

  Serge Haroche
  • School
  • Hard
  • Use

• I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Firsts
  • Social
  • Chess

• Please forget everything that you have learned in school; for you haven't learned it.

  

  Edmund Landau
  • School
  • Forget
  • Learned

• As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Children
  • School
  • Book

• I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from high school, I went to the Chicago Art Institute, and it was there that I thought, well, now I'm going to be a painter.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Family
  • Art
  • Painter

• We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Health
  • Care
  • Roads

• Can't you home school me?" Nate pleaded. "You would never do any work." (Nate's mom) "Sounds perfect!

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Work
  • School
  • Home

• My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • School
  • Mother
  • Terror

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